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THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE CITY The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this excit- ing subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into clear sections addressing the following central topics: • Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities • Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City • Urban Aesthetics • Urban Politics • Citizenship • Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place. The concluding section, Urban Engagements, contains interviews with philosophers discussing their engagement with students and the wider public on issues and initiatives including expe- riential learning, civic and community engagement, disability rights and access, environmental degradation, professional diversity, social justice, and globalization. Essential reading for students and researchers in environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is also a useful resource for those in related fields, such as geography, urban studies, sociology, and political science. Sharon M. Meagher is the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Philosophy at Marymount Manhattan College, USA. Samantha Noll is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, USA, and a bioethicist with the Functional Genomics Initiative. Joseph S. Biehl is the founder and Executive Director of Gotham Philosophical Society, Inc., a federal 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting philosophy in New York City, USA. 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Biehl; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Sharon M. Meagher, Samantha Noll, and Joseph S. Biehl to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-92878-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-68159-7 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS Notes on contributors x Introduction: transforming philosophy and the city 1 Samantha Noll, Joseph S. Biehl, and Sharon M. Meagher PART I Urban philosophies 17 SECTION 1 Historical philosophical engagements with cities 19 1 Plato’s city-soul analogy: the slow train to ordinary virtue 21 Nathan Nicol 2 Philosophers and the city in early modern Europe 32 Ferenc Hörcher 3 Pragmatic engagement in the city: philosophy as a means for catalyzing collective, creative capacity (lessons from John Dewey and Jane Addams) 42 Danielle Lake 4 Back to the cave 51 Joseph S. Biehl v Contents SECTION 2 Modern and contemporary philosophical theories of the city 63 5 Urban philosophy in Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project 65 Frank Cunningham 6 Henri Lefebvre and the right to the city 76 Loren King 7 Foucault and urban philosophy 87 Kevin Scott Jobe 8 Iris Marion Young’s city of difference 101 Elyse Purcell PART II Philosophical engagement with urban issues 111 SECTION 1 Urban aesthetics 113 9 Urban planning and design as an aesthetic dilemma: void versus volume in city-form 115 Abraham Akkerman 10 Architecture and philosophy of the city 131 Saul Fisher 11 A philosophy of urban parks 143 Amanda J. Meyer and Charles Taliaferro 12 Political aesthetics of public art in urban spaces 149 Fred Evans 13 Walking the city: flânerie and flâneurs 160 Kathryn Kramer and John Rennie Short 14 How might creative placemaking lead to more just cities? 169 Sharon M. Meagher vi Contents SECTION 2 Urban politics 181 15 Beyond deliberation and civic engagement: participatory budgeting and a new philosophy of public power 183 Alexander Kolokotronis and Michael Menser 16 Constructing communities in urban spaces 193 Brian Elliott 17 Houselessness 203 Kevin Scott Jobe 18 Residential segregation and rethinking the imperative of integration 216 Ronald R. Sundstrom 19 Gentrification 229 Tyler Zimmer 20 The Occupy movement and the reappearance of the polis 238 Chad Kautzer SECTION 3 Citizenship 251 21 City and common space 253 Paula Cristina Pereira 22 The concept of public space 263 Brian A. Weiner 23 From Good to Progressive Planning 271 Peter Marcuse 24 Hospitality in sanctuary cities 279 Benjamin Boudou 25 Black Lives Matter and the Ferguson moment: toward a philosophy of urban relegation 291 Paul C. Taylor vii Contents 26 Nature where you’re not: rethinking environmental spaces and racism 301 Esme G. Murdock 27 Ghost cities: globalization, neo-capitalist speculation, and the empty cities of the Global South 314 Sharon M. Meagher SECTION 4 Urban environments and the creation/destruction of place 325 28 Metropolitan growth 327 Robert Kirkman 29 Environmental philosophy in the city: confronting the antiurban bias to overcome the human-nature divide 335 Alexandria K. Poole 30 Zoöpolis: animals in the city 353 Cynthia Willett 31 Philosophy of the city and transportation justice 360 Shane Epting 32 Returning water to urban life: governmentality of green infrastructure and the emergence of new human-water relations 366 Irene J. Klaver and J. Aaron Frith 33 Urban agriculture and environmental imagination 379 Samantha Noll 34 Paradox in the city: urban complications regarding climate change and climate justice 390 Michael Goldsby SECTION 5 Urban engagements 401 35 An agora grows in Brooklyn: an interview with Ian Olasov 403 36 Reaching out to the underrepresented: an interview with John R. Torrey 407 viii Contents 37 Blurring the boundaries between the classroom and the city: an interview with Stephen Bloch-Schulman 412 38 Phronesis Lab: practical wisdom in the city: an interview with Sharyn Clough 417 39 Doing field philosophy in the gas fields of Texas: an interview with Adam Briggle 421 40 Engaging cities at home and abroad: connecting our students with urban communities: an interview with Sarah Donovan 423 Index 429 ix
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